THE ONCIDIUMS' JOUSTING IN HONOR TO TOMOKO FUSE

OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!

Paperfolders of the world:

In this day, December 24th 2011,  The Madrigal’s Jousting announces you the opening of its fifth version. This time the name of the Jousting is:

“THE ONCIDIUMS' JOUSTING”

In honour to TOMOKO FUSE

Oncidium is a orchid genus bellonging to the subtribe Oncidiinae that contain about 70 genus and more than 1000 species. All are latinamerican orchids from Mexico, the Caribbean Islands to Argentina.  Many common names distinguish this genus like: Gold Rain because of its long inflorescences that contains many flower (normally in yellow, brown and pink spots) or Dancing Ladys for its big lips that resembles a girl dress and shake in the wind.  For this Jousting will be accepted models from any of the genus in Oncidiinae subtribe not only the Oncidium.  For the Master cathegory I have chosen the Psychopsis krameriana in representational origami.

 

Some of the Oncidium genus orchids just as a reference are shown bellow:

A. CONTEST RULES

1. The contest will be divide in three different competitions:

     A. Minicontests: I have decided to do three minicontests this time in order to mantain the jousting active all year around and let more people to participate.  Each minicontest will last for three months startíng from the publication of these rules.  All are design as instruments to promote the creativity and prepare the competitors for the Jousting, so the models will have no participation in the big contest; but, for sure, there will be winners and all competitors will receive the Certifiate of Participation as well. Each minicontest will be announced at the end of the previous one.


1.  First Minicontest: running from January 31,2011 to Marz 31, 2012. Marcio Nogushi proposes to fold his Oncidium orchid base and get by changing the sequence or just by final shaping different oncidiums orchids. Pictures of the rendition should be upload in the flickr group as instructions bellow.

2. Second Minicontest: From April 1th, 2012 to June 30, 2012. Activity will be announced.
3. Third Minicontest: From July 1th, 2012 to September 30, 2012.  Activity will be announced.

    
B. Competition by categories: models compete with others that have been declared in that category. The category is chosen for a particular model by the competitor; however, there could be a recommendation from the Herald. The categories are the following:


a. Representational Origami


b. Minimalist and Abstract Origami


c. No traditional Origami: stripes, tessellations, modular, etc.


d. Modular Origami.


e. Origami for Masters: Representational Origami for the Psychopsis krameriana. Any other origami techniques for representation of this orchid are accepted but in the other categories.


C. Competition by the pool: all models compete against each other. The aspects to be analyzed are: 1. Origami skill of the model, 2. Esthetic aspects of the model and 3. Correspondence of the model with the jousting subject.


2. You can participate in any one of the categories with as many models as you want.


3. Each new version of a previous model will replace the old ones. The pictures could stay but you should point out which version is going to the voting stage.


4. You will have 9 months to design and present your model or models, starting on December 31th, 2011 Kiritimati time, island of the Kiribati Republic until September 30th, 2012 American Samoa time.


5. You have to do your own research about Oncidium orchids and select all the aspects you believe are important for the design. In the Jousting blog each month we will upload some reference articles or other aspects related with the subject. The blog Jousting and Challenges/ Creativity in motion is at: http://joustingandchallenges.blogspot.com/


6. As the selection process is by pictures in Flickr, there is a new album where you have to upload the pictures of your models. If you decide to participate in the contest ask to join the Flickr group. The link is:

 http://www.flickr.com/groups/lajustadelasoncidium


7. To subscribe to the contest you should ask the A Form sending an e-mail to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com


8. The B Form has to be send with the model presentation. If you are going to present more than one model, each one has his own B form. Remember to indicate the model category. Each participant will have a file with their inscription and the respective forms for their models. Always send your forms to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com


9. Once you have your model designed, upload the picture (s) to the album.


10. The participation is free and without any restriction.


11. The models will be evaluated by the follow aspects: originality, similarity with the real model, esthetic, expression and fold skills including paper selection. The creators have to send the right pictures that show the mention aspects. That means that the picture quality can make the difference in the selection (even knowing this is not a photography contest)


12. Each month or when necessarily there will be updated news about the Jousting status.


Summary:
Step 1: Request, fill and return the A form to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com
Step 2: Join the Flickr group (you must have a Flickr account):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/lajustadelasoncidium
Step 3: Design a model and take good pictures.
Step 4: Upload the pictures in the Flickr group.
Step 5: Fill B form and send to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

B . FOLDED MODEL, DIAGRAMS AND CP

13. You don´t have to send the model to anywhere and we’ll not ask for diagrams


14. You can publish (or not) the CP on the Flickr, it’s your choice. If the judges will need it for the selection process, it will be asked by private email. The judges will maintain the CP in secret without any kind of publication. The CP it’s not a requirement, just a help for the selection.

C. THE JUDGES

15. The jury is conforming by 13 judges that will select the winners


16. Five judges of the jury are named the Judges of Peace and they have to resolve any tie.


17. The judges will deliberate since October 1th 2011 to October 24th 2011.


18. The selection of the winner for each category and in the pool will be done in four stages:


1st stage: Each judge will select the 50% of the models. The 50% with more votes will go to the next stage
2nd Stage: In this stage, judges select 12 models.
3rd Stage: Five models will be select, the 4°place and 5° place and the three models that will pass to the final stage
4rd Stage: The judges will indicate their preference between the three models. If one model has the ABSOLUTE MAJORITY, that one will be the winner, but if that does not happen, it’ll be required to do a second round between the two models with more votes.


19. Judges list:


Eric Madrigal – Costa Rica
Maria M. Acosta – Colombia
Marcio Noguchi – USA
Graciela Vicente – Spain
Santiago Ponce – Ecuador
Beatriz González - Chile
Daniel Jimenez – Costa Rica
José Tomás Buitrago - Colombia
Pere Olivella – Spain
Felipe Moreno.- Spain
Aldo Marcell.- Nicaragua
Oscar Rojas – Costa Rica
Nicolás Terry - France

D. THE PRIZE

20. The winners will be announced on October 24th 2010, birthday of Lillian Oppenheimer


21. In case to raise the funds by means of donation there will be a prize for the Champion in the pool. Otherwise, it is my shame to indicate that there will be no prizes.


22. The prizes, if any, will be sent to the winners to anywhere in the world by certificate mail.


23. All participants will have a participation certificate that will be sent to the address indicated in Form A.

E. THE NEW JOUSTING

24. The new jousting will be announced each November 11 joining the celebration of the Origami Day in Japan and the end of the International Origami Days.

F. DONATIVES

25. All judges and participants are invited to help to find any contributors to collect the money for buying the paintings, the certificates and other administrative costs.


26. All donations should be done by Western Union

THE JOUSTING OF THE GARGOYLES - RULES

OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!

Paperfolders of the world:

In this day, November 11th 2010, that we celebrate The International Origami day, The Madrigal’s Jousting announce you the opening of its fourth version. This time the name of the Jousting is:

“THE JOUSTING OF THE GARGOYLES”

In honour to Eric Joisel

In architecture, a gargoyle is a carved stone grotesque with a spout designed to convey water from a roof and away from the side of a building. Preventing rainwater from running down masonry walls is important because running water erodes the mortar between the stone blocks.[ The term gargoyle is most often applied to medieval work, but throughout all ages some means of water diversion, when not conveyed in gutters, was adopted. The huge quantities of different gargoyles designs, using human and animals parts mix toghether, around the world and the imagination of creator make this a rich field for origami designs.

This contest is dedicated to Eric Joisel for his wonderful contribution to the artistic concept to the Origami work in its higher expresion. Some of his magic work could be seen at:

http://www.ericjoisel.com

A. CONTEST RULES

1. The contest will be divide in three different competitions:

     A. Minicontest: I have decided to let the people design the new Herald for this Jousting as a mini-contest: Quasimodo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame. For this mini contest all people can participated even the judges. The Minicontest starts November 11, 2010 and ends January 31, 2011. Selection time will be held during the first 15 days of February and the winner will be announcing about January 16. The creator of the winner model should let me use his models as the Herald during this Jousting period. I should be allowed to manipulate the picture in photoshop in order to create the scenery for the jousting news as previous competitions. The model will be use exclusively for the jousting and the owner should agree with that but just during this jousting period.

     B. Competition by categories: models compete with others that have been declared in that category. The category is chosen for a particular model by the competitor; however, there could be a recommendation from the Herald. The categories are the following:

a. Representational Origami

b. Minimalist and Abstract Origami

c. No traditional Origami: stripes, tessellations, modular, etc.

d. Origami for Masters: BUSTS AND MASKS. THE EXPRESION IN THE GARGOYLES’ FACE.

     C. Competition by the pool: all models compete against each other. The aspects to be analyzed are: 1. Origami skill of the model, 2. Esthetic aspects of the model and 3. Correspondence of the model with the jousting subject.

2. You can participate in any one of the categories with as many models as you want.

3. Each new version of a previous model will replace the old ones. The pictures could stay but you should point out which version is going to the voting stage.

4. You will have 10 months to design and present your model or models, starting on November 11th, 2010 Kiritimati time, island of the Kiribati Republic until September 30th, 2011 American Samoa time.

5. You have to do your own research about Gargoyles and select all the aspects you believe are important for the design. In the Jousting blog each month we will upload some reference articles or other aspects related with the subject. The blog Jousting and Challenges/ Creativity in motion is at: http://joustingandchallenges.blogspot.com/

6. As the selection process is by pictures in Flickr, there is a new album where you have to upload the pictures of your models. If you decide to participate in the contest ask to join the Flickr group. The link is:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_justa_de_las_gargolas

7. To subscribe to the contest you should ask the A Form sending an e-mail to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

8. The B Form has to be send with the model presentation. If you are going to present more than one model, each one has his own B form. Remember to indicate the model category. Each participant will have a file with their inscription and the respective forms for their models. Always send your forms to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

9. Once you have your model designed, upload the picture (s) to the album.

10. The participation is free and without any restriction.

11. The models will be evaluated by the follow aspects: originality, similarity with the real model, esthetic, expression and fold skills including paper selection. The creators have to send the right pictures that show the mention aspects. That means that the picture quality can make the difference in the selection (even knowing this is not a photography contest)

12. Each month or when necessarily there will be updated news about the Jousting status.

Summary:
Step 1: Request, fill and return the A form to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com
Step 2: Join the Flickr group (you must have a Flickr account):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_justa_de_las_gargolas
Step 3: Design a model and take good pictures.
Step 4: Upload the pictures in the Flickr group.
Step 5: Fill B form and send to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

B . FOLDED MODEL, DIAGRAMS AND CP

13. You don´t have to send the model to anywhere and we’ll not ask for diagrams

14. You can publish (or not) the CP on the Flickr, it’s your choice. If the judges will need it for the selection process, it will be asked by private email. The judges will maintain the CP in secret without any kind of publication. The CP it’s not a requirement, just a help for the selection.

C. THE JUDGES

15. The jury is conforming by 13 judges that will select the winners

16. Five judges of the jury are named the Judges of Peace and they have to resolve any tie.

17. The judges will deliberate since October 1th 2011 to October 24th 2011.

18. The selection of the winner for each category and in the pool will be done in four stages:

1st stage: Each judge will select the 50% of the models. The 50% with more votes will go to the next stage
2nd Stage: In this stage, judges select 12 models.
3rd Stage: Five models will be select, the 4°place and 5° place and the three models that will pass to the final stage
4rd Stage: The judges will indicate their preference between the three models. If one model has the ABSOLUTE MAJORITY, that one will be the winner, but if that does not happen, it’ll be required to do a second round between the two models with more votes.

19. Judges list:

Eric Madrigal – Costa Rica
Maria M. Acosta – Colombia
Marcio Noguchi – USA
Graciela Vicente – Spain
Santiago Ponce – Ecuador
Beatriz González - Chile
Juan Fdo. Aguilera – Colombia
José Tomás Buitrago - Colombia
Pere Olivella – Spain
Felipe Moreno.- Spain
Daniel Naranjo.- Colombia
Oscar Rojas – Costa Rica
Nicolás Terry - France

D. THE PRIZE

20. The winners will be announced on October 24th 2010, birthday of Lillian Oppenheimer

21. In case to raise the funds by means of donation there will be a prize for the Champion in the pool. Otherwise, it is my shame to indicate that there will be no prizes.

22. The prizes, if any, will be sent to the winners to anywhere in the world by certificate mail.

23. All participants will have a participation certificate that will be sent to the address indicated in Form A.

E. THE NEW JOUSTING

24. The new jousting will be announced each November 11 joining the celebration of the Origami Day in Japan and the end of the International Origami Days.

F. DONATIVES

25. All judges and participants are invited to help to find any contributors to collect the money for buying the paintings, the certificates and other administrative costs.

26. All donations should be done by Western Union

THE GREAT JOUSTING OF THE ANCIENT EGYPT IN HONOR OF DAVID LISTER

OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!

Paperfolders of the world:

In this day, November 11th 2009, that we celebrate The International Origami day, The Madrigal’s Joustings announce you the opening of its third version. This time the name of the Jousting is:

The Great Jousting of the Ancient Egypt

In honor to David Lister

The ancient Egypt was a rich culture in all aspects, but besides that their art was expressed with relative simple, elegant and really expressive forms, It is a huge source for Origami inspirations.
This contest is dedicated to David Listen for his titanic contribution to the recuperation of the Origami historical memory. Some of his work could be seen at:

http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/index.php

A. CONTEST RULES

1. The contest will be divide in four categories:
a. Representational Origami of gods and characters
b. Representational Origami of objects
c. Minimalist and Abstract Origami
d. Origami for Masters: The death concept in the Ancient Egypt.

2. You can participate in any one of the categories with as many models as you want.

3. Each new version of a previous model will replace the old ones. The pictures could stay but you should point out which version is going to the voting stage.

4. If there are many models of the same theme, they have to face a pre-selection and only two of them go to the principal contest. This is done for stimulate the creativity and the search for an original theme.

5. You will have 10 months to design and present your model or models, starting on November 11th,2009 Anadyr time until September 30th, 2010 American Samoa time

6. You have to do your own research about Egyptian culture and select all the aspects you believe are important for the design. In the Jousting Blog each month the judges will upload some reference articles about the Ancient Egipt. The blog Ori-jousting and Ori-Challenges. Creativity in motion is at: http://ori-justasyori-retos.blogspot.com/

7. As the selection process is by pictures in Flickr, there is a new album where you have to upload the pictures of your models. If you decide to participate in the contest ask to join the Flickr group. The link is:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_gran_justa_del_antiguo_egipto

8. To subscribe to the contest you should ask the A Form sending an e-mail to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

9. The B Form has to be send with the model presentation. If you are going to present more than one model, each one has his own B form. Remember to indicate the model category. Each participant will have a file with their inscription and the respective forms for their models. Always send your forms to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

10. Once you have your model designed, upload the picture (s) to the album.

11. The participation is free and without any restriction

12. The models will be evaluated by the follow aspects: originality, similarity with the real model, esthetic, expression and fold skills including paper selection. The creators have to send the right pictures that show the mention aspects. That means that the picture quality can make the difference in the selection (even knowing this is not a photography contest)

13. Each month or when necessarily there will be an updated news about the Jousting status.

Summary:

Step 1: Fill the A form and send to eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

Step 2: Join the Flickr group (you must have a Flickr account):
http://www.flickr.com/groups/la_gran_justa_del_antiguo_egipto

Step 3: design a model and take good pictures

Step 4: Upload the pictures in the Flickr group

Step 5: Fill B form and send to: eric_madrigal_cr@hotmail.com

B . FOLD MODEL, DIAGRAMS AND CP

14. You don´t have to send the model to anywhere and we’ll not ask for diagrams

15. You can publish (or not) the CP on the Flickr, it’s your choice. If the judges will need it for the selection process, it will be asked by private email. The judges will maintain the CP in secret without any kind of publication. The CP it’s not a requirement, just a help for the selection.


C. THE JUDGES

16. The jury is conform by 13 judges that will select the winners

17. Five judges of the jury are named the Judges of Peace and they have to resolve any tie.

18. The judges will deliberate since October 1th 2010 to October 24th 2010

19. The selection of the winner for each category will be done in four stages:

1st stage: Each judge will select the 50% of the models. The 50% with more votes will go to the next stage

2nd Stage: In this stage, judges select 12 models.

3rd Stage: Five models will be select, the 4°place and 5° place and the three models that will pass to the final stage

4rd Stage: The judges will indicate their preference between the three models. If one model has the ABSOLUTE MAJORITY, that one will be the winner, but if that does not happen, it’ll be required to do a second round between the two models with more votes.

20. Judges list:

Eric Madrigal – Costa Rica
Maria M. Acosta – Colombia
Marcio Noguchi – USA
Salvatore Valentino –Italia
Santiago Ponce – Ecuador
Dustin Martínez – Colombia
Juan Fdo. Aguilera – Colombia
José Tomás Buitrago - Colombia
Pere Olivella – España
Felipe Moreno.- España
Daniel Naranjo.- Colombia
Oscar Rojas – Costa Rica
José Cortés - Chile



D. THE PRIZE

21. The winners will be announced on October 24th 2010, birthday of Lillian Oppenheimer

22. Only the first place of each category will have prize

23. The prizes will be sent to the winners to anywhere in the world by certificate mail.

24. All participants will have a participation certificate that will be sent to the address indicated in Form A.

25. Each prize will be a painting from the costarican paint artist Jose Alberto Perez Arrieta


E. DONATIVES

25. All judges and participants are invited to help to find any contributors to collect the money for buying the paintings, the certificates and other administrative costs.

26. All donations should be done by Western Union

Challenge Beatriz Gonzalez vs. Silvia Patiño: The Apterix owenii

Beatriz González has already design her Kiwi and still waiting for Silvia Patiño design.

Beatriz indicate the following aspects:

The model is folded in a 30cm x 30cm paper; with a final high of 20 cms.
This time the model obtained is very simple but expressive. It has just a few folds specialy in order to get the beak, the body and the general volume. It was wet folding with a korean paper.




November 14, 2009

Beatriz Gonzalez from Chile has challenged Silvia Patiño from México to design an Apterix owenii. As a condition they have to design with the right proportions of the bird. They have time till January 14, 2010.



Eric Madrigal
Heraldo

"Do not copy, create!"

EGIPTIAN MAPS BY DAVID LISTER. A SPANISH TRASLATION BY OSCAR ROJAS.

As a contribution to the Ancient Egypt Origami Contest, Mr. Oscar Rojas from Costa Rica has traslated the David Lister article about Egyptian Maps:

http://www.britishorigami.info/academic/lister/egypt.php

You could see the spanish article at:

http://ori-justasyori-retos.blogspot.com/2009/12/el-mapa-egipcio-de-turin.html

Eric Madrigal
Herald

THE SACRED IBIS (Threskiornis aethiopicus)

This image of the Ibis model by Oscar Rojas, showing us one of the most representative positions Ancient Egyptians gave to this bird in their amazing art, provides an introduction to this short article about the Ibis and its meaning for the Egyptians of those remote times.
The ibis is a wading and migratory bird, moving between southern Europe and Africa, depending on rainfall conditions in the region. Their breeding areas are located south of the Sahara and in southeastern Iraq. The ibises are seen on the banks of rivers, lakes and swamps, looking in the mud for small invertebrates and supplementing their diet with eggs of other birds.

The ancient Egyptians knew three types of ibises, but only two of them had religious significance. The crested ibis represented one of the component parts of the human being related to the spirit after death and the sacred ibis was the representation of the god Thoth, a very important god for human afterlife. Hence, in many tombs of ancient Egypt is common to see statues of ibis especially in its knee position.

Thoth was venerated as a deity since the earliest days of the empire. His main cult take place in Hermopolis, Middle Egypt. He is represented as an human with an ibis or baboon head. Thoth was the god of the time, the chronology, accounts and mathematics. He was responsible for counting the years of each pharaon rule and write it in the leaves of the sacred tree. He was the inventor of writing and speech, keeper of divine order, rituals and patron of scribes. In the afterlife trial in front of Osiris, Thoth related the deeds of the death that he has write in a piece of wood.

In 1964 British Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery discovered the fascinating catacombs of the ibis near the oldest pyramid: the Step Pyramid of Sakkara.

While searching for the tomb of Pharaoh Imhotep (deeply related to the god Thoth) were discovered a maze of tunnels with many burial chambers where the mummified ibis were placed. Amazingly there were counted about a million and a half ibises.

It is not sure why this religios cult was so prolific, but probably the ibis were presented as offers for Thot and after that they sacrified and mummified them.

Recopilation by Eric Madrigal

Challenge Elerth Leiva 28/11/2009: The Intihuatana at Machu Picchu.

Elerth Leiva is a paper folder and arquitecture student, so I give him this particular design challenge. Elerth would like to find a challenger to compite against him. If you are interested please leave a comment with your name before 28/12/2009. Elerth will have time till January 28, 2010.



Eric Madrigal

"Do not copy, create!"

Challenge Juan Arriagada vs. Gonzalo Benavente: The elephant shrew

Gonzalo Benavente has already designed the Elephan Shrew and show us his rendition. He will higly appreciate your comments regarding his design and he remain waiting for Juan Arriagada's design.





November 4th, 2009

Juan Arriagada from Chile has challange Gonzalo Benavente from Perú to design an Elephant Shrew(Petrodomus tetradactylus)



They have time til January 4th, 2010.

Eric Madrigal
Herald

"Do not copy, create"